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Miguel Conner
Personal blog · miguelconner.substack.comaiwriting
Miguel Conner's personal blog at miguelconner.substack.com covers ai and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “I'm Coding by Hand”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread about redesigning the Recurse Center application. The only comment, from an RC founder, discusses LLM use in the community and does not address this blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Things about AI and language learning.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm Coding by Hand2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
What Hacker News says?
(I'm one of the founders of the Recurse Center.) At least so far, the impact of LLMs has been overall positive for RC. We have a big-tent community, which includes everyone from those who avoid LLMs at all costs to those who are all-in on them, and everyone in between. We have folks who come to our retreats with the explicit goal of not programming with LLMs[1] (usually because they've been using them extensively at…
Comment linking /p/im-coding-by-hand
on “Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers”Submitted I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Coding by Hand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine-tuning a small model for text simplification with simple verifiers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion